Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

Written by Kate DiCamillo, Illustrated by K. G. Campbell

This is an absolutely fun book. The main characters Flora, a child with divorced parents, and Ulysses, who is a squirrel, are wonderful. The two become friends through an unlikely mishap when Ulysses is sucked up a vacuum and Flora saves him. A series of adventures then occur and both of the characters along with some others make up a new kind of family.